No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
SRI AUROBINDOOurselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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